Politics
By: Anne Perkins
Series: Little book of big ideas; Little book of big ideas
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781556527500
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Politicians; Political science; Political leadership; Heads of state; Biography; History
Description: Presents an overview of major political issues and theories from fifty personalities who that helped to change and shape the world.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Political Thinkers --; title: Plato --; title: Aristotle --; title: Niccolo Machiavelli --; title: Thomas Hobbes --; title: Libertarianism --; title: Baruch Spinoza --; title: John Locke --; title: Charles de Montesquieu --; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau --; title: Feminism --; title: Thomas Paine --; title: Edmund Burke --; title: Henri de Saint-Simon --; title: Auguste Comte --; title: Socialism --; title: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels --; title: Antonio Gramsci --; title: John Rawls --; title: Empire Builders, Conquerors, and Rulers --; title: Conservatism and Neoconservatism --; title: Alexander the Great --; title: Shih Huang-ti --; title: Julius Caesar --; title: Charlemagne --; title: Genghis Khan --; title: Saladin --; title: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain --; title: Colonialism --; title: Elizabeth I of England --; title: Akbar the Great --; title: Napoleon Bonaparte --; title: Nationalism --; title: Catherine the Great of Russia --; title: Otto von Bismarck --; title: Adolf Hitler --; title: Totalitarianism --; title: Joseph Stalin --; title: Revolutionaries and Nation Builders --; title: Simon Bolivar --; title: Giuseppe Garibaldi --; title: Sun Yat-sen --; title: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin --; title: Communism --; title: Kemal Ataturk --; title: Gamal Abdel Nasser --; title: Mahatma Gandhi --; title: Nelson Mandela --; title: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini --; title: Wahhabism --; title: David Ben-Gurion --; title: Mao Tse-tung --; title: Great Leaders --; title: Muhammad --; title: Abraham Lincoln --; title: Charles de Gaulle --; title: Sir Winston Churchill --; title: Democracy --; title: Martin Luther King Jr. --; title: Lech Walesa --; title: Fidel Castro --; title: Mikhail Gorbachev --; title: Jawaharlal Nehru --; title: Julius Nyerere.